The Sun. — London, England, 1808-10-13 00:00:00

VICT&ALL ING-OFFICZ, 044. 12, 001. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING • - 3 - HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby itivriWite,That on Wednesday the zd e f November next, they will be ready to re ceive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for such quan tities of W EST INDIA RUA as shall be :demanded for the use of His Majesty's skip; and Vessels'at Leith, Leith Routh, and the Firth of Edinburgh, for twelve Month: certain ; and further, until, Six Months warning shall be given on either side, for the termination of the said Contrail : to be paid for 6 . y Bills, 'payable, with interest, ninety days after date. The Conditions of the" Contraß Way he seen at the Sectetary's Office, at this Office, or by applying to the Coileaor of His Ma jelly's Customs at Leith. No regard will 6e bad to any Tender in which the Price shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall nolhedelivered to the Board before One o'clock on the said Wednesday, the 2el of November next, nor unless the Person who makes . the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, to answer, when called for. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4, „* We intended to insert SWERDNA'S favour; but as we kave reason to believe that the subje6t to which it relates has been finally settled, it may be deemed most prudent to avoid further discussion. THE SHADE OF Lux, in reference to the late dreadful cala mity in Covent-garden, we reject with contempt, as it is an illiberal attack upon the vi&ims of misfortune. We are sorry we cannot this day resume the admirable deve lopement of BUOISIAPA RTZ'S Military Charaaer, in the historical detail of his Campaigns in Italy. MAILS. , iItRIVZD.-.I Waterford. Do Gottenburgh, I Dublin, , a Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TW.ELVZ O'CLOCK. Consols - 6s i 66 THE S sOLZLI QUIS DICIRI TALSUM AUDLAT L 0 ND 0 IV, ThURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1808. It was reported last night, that intelligence had been received of the destruclion of the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. We should be happy to con firm this statement, but Governpent have not re • ceived any accounts whatever from the Baltic. It is probable that the North-west wind which prevailed for so many days, rendered it impossible for any of our vessels to work out of the Cat tegat. We entertain, however, very sanguine hopes that we shall soon receive satisfaEtory intelligence from that quarter. Lord BURGHERSH arrived in town from Portugal this day, but as his Lordship left the Tagus at ,the same time with Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, he has brought no fresh intelligence. We have received Dutch and French Papers, the former to the 7th, and the latter to the ad inst.— BUON'APARTE, it appears, left Franck fort for Erfurth on the morning of the 25th ult. and the Emperor ALEXANDER passed through Leipsic OD the, same day. Some of the foreign Journals contain very mysterious hints respeCting the imPortant Conse quences which are to result from this meeting. It is said that a partition of the whole of the Elstern par t of Europe is to take place, and that:Austria will be _ - offered a considerable share. We have reason to believe that this statement is well founded. When the Treaty of 'Tilsit, was signed, we stated, upon very good information, that the Emperor ALittAN DER had been won over to the cause of BUONAPARTR by promises of a considerable accession of territory 'on die side of Turkey% Our statement - is now on 'the point of . being verified ; but we trust that the Emperor of Austria will not 6e'induceti, by the pros pepl of temporary advantage, to concur.•in measures which must finally tend to own desti uaion. Ti;;-2 very little information which these Papers give us rt.:ipe: - ..-tipg Spain, is at a satistaddry zitture. In 'ste:id of annduncing the rapid advance of the French troops, and enumerating their victories over the Spanish Rebels, the French Papers now alually think it - a matter of boast, that Vittoria; a small town in one corner of . Spain, is in a state of Oat JOSEPH INTAr(4.tos, Mir King of ,Spain and the Indies, has not yet been driven out of it ! It does not appear that any large.reinforce-, ments have yet reached Bayonne : we are rather in dined to think that the main body of the French Troops will advance by way of Perpignan. The Answer given by His MAJESTY to the Ad dress voted by the City of Loudon, and presented yesterday at the Queen's Palace, tvas exaelly consist ent with thedignity of ;he British Sovereign, whose power is founded upon the bd:sis of justice. It was . with regret we found that the City of London .had resolved upon the measuie of presenting such an Address, because,it is impossil:le to suppOse . that His MAJESTY is not too much alive to the interest and honour of the nation to nerd any instigation 'for a due inquiry into every thing that may affeel either. The Address, therefore, we conceive, in the first nctatc , , to have been wholly unnt;c*Ssary ; and it would have been no more than a proper respeta to the charaaer of such a patriotic Monarch, to have left to him the grace of ordering whatever investigation might be deemed necessary on the subject in question. Rut the language of the Ad dress is much too strong, and hear; an aspett.of prejudication that is by no means consistent with' the high and 'dignified charaoer which the:City-of Lon- don 6iight to maintain. The Convention is pro nounced' in the Address "humiliating and c legrading to th is Country and its Allies, as well as "diskohourable and unprecedented ;" arid it requires the " punishment of those by whose miscondua and incapacity the cause of, the Country and its Allies have • been so shamefully sacrificed ;" and all this is said before the circumstances upon which the transaEtion was founded are made known to the world, and be fore, therefore, the guilt of those persons has been proved, upon whom punishment has been thus pre rpaturely and intemperately demanded. Surely this language savours more of party -spirit than of that dignified forbearanCe and pure impartiality which become the Capital of the British Empire, and the great.sanauary of the civilized world ! His MA JESTY, in his Answer, says, that ,the transaEtion referred to " has disappointed the hopes and expec tations of the Nation." Hence then it is evident that the sentiments of the royal mind must strongly have pointed towards a full investigation of the whole proceedings, and consequently that His MAJESTY should not have been thus urged to an inquiry which his patriotic heart, zealous for the honour of .his Crown, would resolutely have di&ated. Here the ,matter then ought to rest. There cannot be a doubt that the most rigid scrutiny will take place, and that if guilt is demonstrated, it will experience the fate it deserves. We trust then, that if evil minded men should attempt to - agitate the City with farthe'r proceedings on this subje&, a sense of libe rality, and every honourable feeling, will frustrate their endeavours, and suffer the matter.to come be fore the proper tribunal, assured that the result will be consistent with the ends of substantial justice, and suitable to the charaEler of the Natioti. Yesterday, about twelVe o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where he was received by the; Duke of, KENT. At two o'clock his MAJESTY was waited upon by a deputa tion from the Corporation of the City of London, -with an Address relative to the late. Convention in Pbrtugal. [See the City Address, in another part of ouraPaper.] After the deputation had withdrawn, his MAJESTY held a privSte Levee, which was at tended lyv The Archbishop of Canterbury, the First Lordof the Trea sury, the Lard Privy Seal, the three Secretaries of State, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admi ralty, the Duke of .4ontrose, Lords Arden (in waiting), Heathfield (Gold Stick), and Somerset ; Sirs I'. tones and A. Welles;cy, Generals Turner, Ferguson, and Clavering; Admiral Pickmore, Colonels Bradshaw, Birch O'Loghlin, and Torrens ; Captains Bristow ' Stanhope, Mellish , Mat. collo, and Temple ; Lieutena n t Davis, and Ensign Wynd ham. The following bad the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : Colonel Bradshaw, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Major-General Turner, upon his return from abroad, and upon his promotion. Lieutenant-Colonel Birch, of the First Regiment of Life Guards upon his promotion. Sir Thomas tones, upon his being created a Baronet. Captain Bristow, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion.. _ _ * Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, upon his return from Portugal, and on leave of absence. Colonel O'Loghlin, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, upon his promotion. Captain Stanhope„kide.de-Camp to Sir Arthur Welleai.' ley, upon has return to the Army in Portugal. Captain Malcolm, IL N. upon his being appointed to his Majesty's ship Donegal. Lord Fitzroy SOmerset, upon his return from Portugal. Major-General Ferguson, upon his return froni Portugal. Captaio I. Temple, IL N. upon his being appointed to lais Maj, 10% 's ship Crescent. Captain Mellish, upon his return from Portugal. Rear-Admiral Pickinore, upon his promotion. Brigadier-General Clavering, upon, his return from the Cape of Good' 'lope. About six o'clock his' MAJESTY set off on his re turn to Windsor. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Duke of -PORTLAND. Yesterday 'Mr. RYDER, as Judge Advocate, laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Martial. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY and General FERGU 'ON, were ,most graciously received by their Sove reign yesterctay at Court. The following arrangement has been.. made re soe6ting the commerce of this Country with the Brazils, the necessary etre& of which will be, that this Kingdom will receive the merchandize of those Colonies by a dire 4 communication, without the obstrtaktion of the Port of Lisbon as an intennetfiote mart. Ministers have come to the resolution of ex tending the Bonding and Warehousing Act to all goods the growth s produce, and manufadure of Co lonies and Countries in amity, imported either in British Ships or the Ships of those" Colonies and Countries, without being subject to the export duty under the Order in Council Mts. " Government has received dispatches from Mr. DUFF, dated the 16th Sept. by which we are happy to learn, that a wide and most extensive market is opened for the manufaetUres of this country which were formerly contraband in. Spain. The Junta of Seville have communicated their resolution upon the .cargoes of several British - s,hips which have entered the Bay of Cadiz since the peace betwixt this coun try and Spain ;. and they have permitted all 'British goods on board these vessels, that were formerly.pro hibitc.d, to be imported upon paying. 15 per cent. duty, and farther 5 per cent. •if for . internal con sumption.; those goods are then to be regarded as Spanish golds, and may be exported to all their co lonies upun paying 2 percent. royal duties, and such other imposts as similar foreign goods pay; and, it is stated, that there is no doubt but all other cargoes will be received with similar indulgence. The Go vernor of Cadiz received thi - communication from the Junta of Se, tile , and by him it was transmitted to Mr. DUFI?. Martha Brae, Co E; Diana, THOMAS; Ann, JAMES, and the lEohis, four of the Fleet from Ja mlic3, are.nrived at Bristol. NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 12.—Arrived his Majesty's Ship Plover, with a "convoy- of Transports, from Plymouth; the Camilia, GOODHALL, from Sunder land. Sailed the Charlotte and Esther, — roi'Lond9n. Went out of Harbo . ur the Dextrous and Redpole Gun-brigs. His Majesty's Ship Hydra is appointed convoy for the Mediterranean ; and Jupiter, for Spain. DEAL, OCT. I2.—Arrived, last night, the Neme sis Frigate, and Bold Gun Brig, from thQ Westward ; This afternoon, the Supply Naval Tran Sport, from ditto ; and the Satellite Sloop, from the North. ! ward. Sailed the Pandora Sloop, and Neniesis Frigate to the Northward ; the Skylark and Oberon Sloops to the Westward.! SHEERNESS, OCT. 12.—Went out of Harbour to the Little Nore, the Camilla, ,of 20 guns, Captain Bow EN. Anchored at the Little Nore, from Chatham, the Merope Sloop of War. The Defence, of 74 guns, Capt. EKINS, is at Long reach„taking in her guns; and the Agincourt, of 64 guns, Capt. HENDERSON, iS Propped down to Blacksnakes. Sailed the Locust Gun Brig, Lieut. GEDGE, with convoy for the Baltic. DETAIL OP TIM FORCES COMPOSING THE EXPEDI- T/011 ASSEMBLE AT ,FALINIOU H, UNDER THE OCT. 3, 1808. DAVID BAIRD, Etna_ Total ive raid( straalgth and file. of each Brigade. I 1 353 ttin, 2466 - 625 866 ( 810( 3G9 8 797 620 6 4 0 782. 2 C4 2 693 592 2007 72.2 9% 2 ' 367 405 Regiments. Ist bat. Ist Gds 3d bat. ditto zd bat. t4th ist bat. 26th 3d bat. 27th ad bat. 34th ---.---, 5 ist ad bat. sgth 76t11 3d bat. Ist id bat. t d ad bat. 8 Ist tst bat. 43d s st bat. 95th ad bat. ditto 11,287 805 268 Horses. 790 'so COMMAND OF ,SIR C eneral 0 fficers com manding Brigades. hlajor- Gen. WARDS, Ist G uards. Major• General MAN niNGHAM - - Major-Cezieral MAC- KENZIE Brig.-General SLADE Colonel CFtAL/FURD f Royal Artillery Royal Waggon Train Detichments { Stall Corps - 9th Foot sth ditto - - 1684 Total - I 12 ,4 1 3 I 850 The above total is exclusive of Officers, Staff, and Non commissioned Officers. The Brigade allotted to General SLADE has since been put under the orders of General MA tviviN c itAikt, the former hav ing been Ordered to Portsmouth to take the command of the Cavalry embarking there. The PRINCE proceeds early next week to Ports mouth, to take leave of Colonel LEIGH and his regi ment. The Duke Of CUM2ERLAND goes about the same time, and General VYSE, to take leave of their regiments. ,• Never was the departure of any corps more re gret.ted than that of the 7th Dragoons, at Ipswich, by the inhabitants and neighbouring country gentry. Mr. JOHN TROTTER, the Assistant Deputy Store keeper-General, has gone out to Sir HEW DALRYJNI-. PLR'S army. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY is to have. an interview this day with his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, after which he sets out to aitlandi, on an invitation from his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK. We have seen letters from off Lisbon, dated the 20th ult. They state " that the second division of the French had not sailed, but were expected to sail immediately—that JUNOT and his Generals were on board their ships, not .daring to set foot on shore— LOISON and LABORDE Were with difficulty saved from the fury of the populace, who Irad surrounded their houses, and threatened to burn them. file baggage of the enefny had been searched, and much of the plunder had been taken out, to the great an noyance of JUNOT." THE OPERA-HOUSE.—It has been thought strange, that after the Covent-Garden Company should have been admitted so liberally into this Theatre, it should hare received such early notice to quit. But a misunderstanding has arisen, founded upon the op position between Mr. TAYLOR and Mr. WATERS, about which the Public has heard so much. This , Matter has been erroneously mentioned, in a Morn- Mg Paper, to . the discredit of Mr. TAYLOR, whose Conduct, we understand,. has been uniformly open, candid, and •disinterested, throughout the Whole transaaiou. The Mdrning Paper says, that " Mr. HAt;Rls had undertaken to give 30001. for the use of the Theatre, but that sonic dispute had arisen with respeel to the payee ; Mr. TAYLOR wishing to receive the cash, and Mr. HARRIS thinking it more safe and fit to pay it,iuto the hands of a Banker, for the use of all the parties interested in the produce of the Premises."—Now we are assured, from authority on which we rely, that so far was Mr. TAYLOR from " wishing to. receive the cash," that he positively refused to receive it when Mr. HARRIS proposed to pay it into his hands; and he himself proposed that it shoul4 be' vested in the bands of a Banker, in order to covert the expellee of insurance, &c. &c. during the time the Company performed there. Before, however, this matter was settled, Mr. WATERS sent a notice to' Mr. HARRIS, 110110 pay any money arising from the Opera House on this ground, except fat - the in terest of Mr. WATERS. Mr. HARRIS to whom it must haVe been indifferent to whom he- should pay the money, except for the preference which he might naturally be inclined to give to Mr. TAY LOR, who. so promptly tendered the Theatre to him, is therefore placed in a vexatious uncer :fanny on this occasion, and the money will, of , course be a subject of future litigation between the adverse parties in the Opera House.—But, indeekt, it was impossible for the Covent-garden Company to remain long in that. Theatre, if no dispute had arisen, on account of the necessity for restoring it to its former situation. • CITY ADDRESS TO TI-11:_!:1.\•;. Yesterday a Deputation, consisting of the Ripiitr }pp. 144,0 rd Mayor, Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sheciff.4, and several of the Common Council of the City of London, waited upon his Majesty, at the Queen's Palace (being introduced by Lord ARDEN, thi.tord invaitingy; with the following Address and Petition, which 'was yead by JOHN SILVES,TER, Es'l• the Recorder, as follows: TO THE KING's MOST EXCELLENT MA tESTY, The humble and dutiful Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled; • • • " " MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, " We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjels, the bard Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of Los pammon Council assembled, most hurnbly_approach your Mal? Sty, with renewed assurancesof attachment to your Majekfl'inost sacred Person and Government, and venera tion for the free principles of the British Constitution.; to ex press to ytiur Majesty our grief and astonishment at the ex traordinary and disgraceful - Convention lately entered into by the Commander of your Majesty's Forces in P,ortngar. and the Commander of the 'French Army in Lisbon. • " The circumstances attendi;ig this affliditig event cannot be coritemplatedzin-British minds -without the mast painful emotions, and, all ranks of your Majesty's subjeds seem to have felt the utmost concern- and indignation at a Treaty so humiliating and degrading to this.Count,ry and its Al After a signal vidory gained by the ,valour and ciisciplia of British Troops, by which the Enemy appears to have been cut offfrom all means of succour or esra lie,' we have the sari mortification ofsee.ing the laurels'so nobly acquired torn from the brows of our brave Soldiers, and terms graiited to the Bitemy' disgraceful to the British name, and injurious to the best interests of the British Nation. . " Besides the restitution - of the Russian Fle e t o poro de" finitive Treaty of' Peiice with that Power, and the sendili, back to their country, without exchange, so large a number ot Russian Sailors ; by this ignominious Convention, British Fleets are to convey to France the French Army and its plunder, where they will be at liberty immediately to re commence their adive operations against us or our Al hes. The guarantee and safe conveyance of their - plunder, cannot but prove highly iftitating to the pillaged inhabitant s ove r whom whom they have 'tyrannized, and fur whose deliverance an d the British Army was sent, and the full recognt", tion of the title and dignity of Emperor of France, while all mention of the Government of Portugal is omitted, must be. considered as highly disrespeetful to the legitimate authoritY • of thatie.caintry. . . 15Q/;therefore humbly pray your Majesty, in justice .to _the outraged feelings of a brave, injured, and indignant people, whose blood and treasure have been thus expended. as well as to retrieve the wounded honour of the count ry, a O4 , to remove from its character so foul a stain in the eyes Europe, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased int" mednitely to institute such an Inquiry into this dishonour' able and unprecedented transaction, as will 'lead to-the covery and punishment of .those by whose inisconduat and 6 incapacity the cause of the Couutry and its Allies 4a 5 - bee so shamefully sacrificed. " We beg to assure your Majesty of our unalterable f i a t lity, and earnest desire to co- o perate in ever y meas ure ce l l- Th . cive to the peace, honour, and security o f y our Alajesty's "" minions • S:gned by Order °Mona, "HENRY WOODTHORPr•, , r;r: ,:11(; . Tco,, which Address and- Petition his MAJESTY W 35 graciously pleased to return the following Answer I Am' fully sensible of your loyalty and attachment to mY Person and Government. " I give credit to 'the motives which have diaated yotor Petition and Address, but 1 must remind you that it is incory sistent with the.principles of British Justice to pronounc e judgment without - previous investigation. " I should have hoped that recent occurrences would hav e 'convinced you, that I am at all times ready to institute in' .quiries on occasions in which the characacr of the Country' or the honour of my Arms, is concerned, and that the int r . . position of the City of London could not be necessary for ,!_no clueing me to direstdueinquiry to be made into a trans a ct 24 % N vi a l_ t ic iohne. hl ,3 7s disappointed the hopes and expeaatiolis of i" were all very graciou s l y received/ n-cil; They the honour to kiss his MAJESTY'S band.. The fate of the Students of this institution, un etrciscil,fflettichYe the conscription-aa of King Jr;RomE, crous and seasonable. The University, as it is called , of Gottingen, has been, ever since the French Revolu tion, an assemblage of advocates for France—the verY, head-quarters of all those amateurs of nonsense and agents 0;1 hypocrisy, who have• prepared Germany 1 ° •betieVe , in the benevolence and irresistibility o f tile I French. With such a doating fondness have the gnar ls highly lud_i-, rels of France been adopted there, than HEY NE, G in° of the few men of learning they have had, could O° L . publish a new Edition of an antient Poet, without a note full of insolence towards England. We WY,' therefore, now justly delight in the reward whi" Gottingen receives from- France. Severity fr om any third party is nothing, either as mater of i n t ample, or retribution, to the valuable misconclurcltifi.. one accomplice towards another; The tend arteperire sua— ha tfite from the n ii)of opFortunities for its application -- is not ‘on y hi _ I most just of all laws, but the neatest of all -c°" • slops to a story. It renders th e a ation So entire ' and round in it se lf. I t so a b so l ute l y secur es/the 00 ' nection of lo cg i nn i ng , middle, and. end. We be g leave to congratulate the Students of Gottingen OJ3 their contributing to so perfe& an Epopee. TheY, will soon be drummed into discipline. They w il l march in a grand anapcestic, or perhaps, choriainb ie i• measure at a review ;—they will advance with a tin e 1 spondaic pas to the , charge Ht hey will run - a way i r excellent tribrachycs, if they should not meet ‘k:i t / a cthsura. But a Drum-major alone would do J O5- g*. lice to the whole prosody of their movero' lr f e s,v Should any of them become captive, and P° s /7 4 , -- ree ric i months in an Austrian or Spanish prison, a " I "' h i • to 1 Ode has been long ready for him, that will save . 1 the trouble of composition. 6. %Vhene'er with haggard eyes I'view This dungeon, that I am rotting in, I think of those companions true, Who studied with me at the U- —niversity ot• Go t t ingest niversity of Gottingen. !!'" Sun, moon and stars, vain world, adieu, tulU That Kings and Priests are plotting in; Here doom'd to starve on water.gru--- -el, I shall never see the U-- -niversity of Gottingen, —niversity of Guttiogq• • At the Beverley quarter-sessions on Tuesday, . I ° l3ll ;nr Thurslove, of Beverley, for repeatedly exhibitioSll!, self in a state of nakedness in the neighbourho oj that place, was indicted tor an assault, in ; tion, and pleaded guilty. Fle was sentenced £9 ,t "." - months hard labour in the house of correction. hr q;sl9 Magistrates of Warwickshire came to a tion, 4a late Sessions,,that statutes for hiring , r o.. yams haVe a tendency to promote idleness a nd rainy among servants ; and •accordingly hav e ( . 1 commended to misters of servants in husbandry to attend such meetings, nor to hire serva is w i ' L out ehara6ters. THE 'UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN ! 1 1 f~ 1 )